Medical research
Circadian clock linked to obesity, diabetes and heart attacks
Disruption in the body's circadian rhythm can lead not only to obesity, but can also increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
Feb 21, 2013
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Neuroscience
Circadian clock plays unexpected role in neurodegenerative diseases
While your body might bemoan the many uncomfortable effects of jet lag, your brain may be thanking you for that cross-time zone travel.
Apr 2, 2019
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Intermittent fasting makes fruit flies live longer—will it work for people?
Whether intermittent fasting is called the 5:2 diet or the 16/8 method, celebrities swear that these eating regimens are a great way to lose weight. Fasting is now trendy, but real science backs up claims that fasting ...
Sep 29, 2021
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Neuroscience
Settling the debate on serotonin's role in sleep
Serotonin is a multipurpose molecule found throughout the brain, playing a role in memory, cognition, and feelings of happiness and other emotions. In particular, researchers have long debated serotonin's role in sleep: Does ...
Jun 24, 2019
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Loss of circadian regulation allows for increase in glucose production during lung cancer
New research from the University of California, Irvine reveals how the circadian regulation of glucose production in the liver is lost during lung cancer progression, and how the resulting increase in glucose production may ...
Jun 26, 2021
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Time matters: Does our biological clock keep cancer at bay?
Our body has an internal biological or "circadian" clock, which cycles daily and is synchronized with solar time. New research done in mice suggests that it can help suppress cancer. The study, publishing 7 December in the ...
Dec 7, 2017
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Research suggests brain's melatonin may trigger sleep
If you walk into your local drug store and ask for a supplement to help you sleep, you might be directed to a bottle labeled "melatonin." The hormone supplement's use as a sleep aid is supported by anecdotal evidence and ...
Mar 6, 2015
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Neuroscience
From the beginning, the brain knows the difference between night and day
The brain is apparently programmed from birth to develop the ability to determine sunrise and sunset, new research on circadian rhythms at the University of Chicago shows.
Apr 28, 2011
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Genetics
Gender and age differences found in gene expression related to circadian clock
A trio of bioengineering scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has found age and gender differences in gene expression related to the circadian clock. For their paper published in the journal Science, Lorenzo ...
Neuroscience
Melatonin in mice: There's more to this hormone than sleep
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science and the RIKEN BioResource Research Center in Japan, along with collaborators at the State University of New York at Buffalo, have created a mouse model that allows the study ...
Jun 23, 2021
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